Currently in the Generators Page chat, everyone has a blue tag xcept F1EX. Was thinking what we can do and realized: hey, in comments, can we please have an option to choose our tag colors?

  • perchance@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Hmm, yeah this has been asked for before, and the reason I haven’t done it yet is because it would make it easier for people to impersonate others. I.e. set their nickname to the same, and set their color to the same, and then rely on people not noticing that the letters are different. This might not trick many people, but it would make it more annoying since there’s a lower chance of at-a-glance check being correct.

    Ideally I’d replace the letters with a dingbat font or something so there’s more visual distinction between the tags. Also now that usernames are a thing, this potentially makes the impersonation issue less relevant. I’m still a bit indecisive on this one though…

    • BluePower@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Ideally I’d replace the letters with a dingbat font or something so there’s more visual distinction between the tags.

      I’ve also had a similar kind of idea by having an auto-generated nickname based on the user’s tag in my advanced comments plugin demo. For example: B134 becomes BtereHariman34 (though the tag-to-nickname system is still in underlying development, and I might change the names on the database so it looks less like nonsense to read on)